To learn the story of Diebold Inc. one would need to go back more than 150 years to Cincinnati in 1859, when German immigrant Charles Diebold — a locksmith by trade — began to buy interest in a safe-building business where he had worked, later to be named Diebold, Baumann and Company. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 proved the worth of Diebold’s fire-proof safes, and the company went on to flourish in many markets over the next century.
“One hundred years after our founding, our product mix had expanded to include surveillance equipment, access control systems, alarms and devices,” describes Bradley Stephenson, vice president of Security Solutions. “As we moved toward the 21st century, we added ATM security, logical security and monitoring to our portfolio.” As the company continually refined its breadth of services and depth of in-house capabilities, Diebold evolved into a total security systems integrator.